[85254] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon keyboard
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven Litaer)
Fri Jan 16 06:59:12 2009
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:56:03 +0100
From: "Lieven Litaer" <levinius@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <49702647.3010100@direct.ca>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
ja' James:
> I believe it's just a regular, normal keyboard (except using the
> oh-so-nice Cherry keyswitches) with pIqaD lettering. So depending on
> whatever your keyboard setting is, it'll be US layout or whatever other
> keyboard layout you have set.
And that's probably the problem. The first row shows the pIqaD letters Q-w-e-r-t.
But when you see on the picture the row all down, on the left shows the Klingon letter {y} on the spot where US-keyboards have Z (if I remember correctly) - A german keyboard has Y on that key. (perhaps because it's a german company??)
Next problem are definitely the letters K, Z and F, and others that don't exist in Klingon, these are shown with wrong symbols - I see v or gh more than once on that board.
The keyboard is certainly funny, but not really useful. If you have a different keyboard layout (like azerty instead of qwertz), you might be able to remove the keys and put them on the right spot.
BTW, depending on what ttf-Font ypu use, {ng} is on "F", {q} is on K and {tlh} is on X; but some work differently.
(Long time ago, I printed out the pIqaD letters, and glued them to my keyboard. It also works ;-)
Qapla'
Quvar.
PS: at least they used the right half-official pIqaD, and not just some of the nonsense Paramount-letters!
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